Melissa Ingoldsby
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Remember when you first kissed me?
Dearest Barbara, It's summer in the dreary 2004. Why aren't you here with me? I get the feeling you'd knock me out for wanting death so much. But I remember the most terrible things mixing up inside of me when I realized that you were actually gone. When you left that night, I had the chance to run after you but you were so affected by something that you demanded I stay behind.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in History
A Milestone: My First Bad Review
Some might think one is meshuggah, (crazy in Jewish Swedish slang), for saying they hit a big milestone as a writer for sharing their first bad review. Sometimes the craziest thing is the realest thing we can do for ourselves. It’s scary, I won’t lie, to put this out in the open to the public. Even if only one person reads this, it puts me in the position to be judged. I made peace with it.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Confessions
Rewritten
I have rewritten all the greatest love poems over and over again to you. I rewrote the old ones, the new ones, the bad ones and the good ones. The layers of love were like bone and sinew and guts. Not the stuff that you ever liked. But, that’s me.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
